1950s in Sociology - 1959

1959

• Oliver Cox's Foundations of Capitalism is published.
• Ralf Dahrendorf's Class and Class Conflict in an Industrial Society is published.
• Ernest Gellner's Words and Things is published.
• Erving Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is published.
• Morris Janowitz's Sociology and the Military Establishment is published.
• Oscar Lewis' Five Families; Mexican Case Studies In The Culture Of Poverty is published.
• C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination is published.
• Geoffrey Duncan Mitchell's Sociology : the study of social systems is published.
• Karl Popper's The Logic of Scientific Discovery is published.
• Barbara Wootton's Social Science and Social Pathology is published.
• Kingsley Davis serves as president of ASA.
• Barbara Wootton becomes president of the British Sociological Association.
• Helmuth Plessner retires as chairperson of the German Society for Sociology and is succeeded by Theodor Adorno